JD Supra

FTC Gives it to X-Mode: 5 Lessons from the Agency’s Latest Consumer Location Data Case

The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged violations of Section 5 of the ...
Business Insider

Google will delete billions of browsing records to settle privacy lawsuit: court filing

Google will destroy user data to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit related to its "incognito" mode. The 2020 lawsuit accused Google of collecting users' data without their knowledge. Google will ...
TechCrunch

FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first of its kind settlement ...
Bleeping Computer

FTC bans data broker from selling Americans’ location data

Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling Americans' raw location data that could be used for tracking purposes. Under the order ...